Can a positive photopatch test be elicited by subclinical irritancy or allergy plus suberythemal UV exposure?

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Beattie, P E ^a   Traynor, N J ^a   Woods, J A ^a   Dawe, R S ^a   Ferguson, J ^a   Ibbotson, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nickel; Photoaugmentation; Photocontact allergy; Photopatch test; Photosuppression; Sodium lauryl sulfate

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; NICKEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHOTOPATCH TEST; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN IRRITATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, IRRITANT; DERMATITIS, PHOTOALLERGIC; ERYTHEMA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; PATCH TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 11144267205     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2004.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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